feature: every command should support `--json` for json output, for reliable scripting

timotheecour commented 4 years ago

eg:

chrome-cli --json info should dump as json
chrome-cli --json open http://www.google.com same thing

this makes for reliable scripting (analog to git's porcelain vs plumbing mode) that won't break in case output adds new fields etc

kellyjonbrazil commented 2 years ago

Any chance a JSON output option could be considered? I received a request to add a crome-cli parser to jc to convert the output to JSON, but it would be nice if this was done natively.

prasmussen commented 2 years ago

I just released 1.8.0 (available via brew) which has support for json output. It can be enabled with the OUTPUT_FORMAT env variable (this was the easiest way to implement it – I really should port chrome-cli to Swift one day...).

Usage example:

OUTPUT_FORMAT="json" brave-cli info

{
  "id" : 2785,
  "loading" : false,
  "title" : "feature: every command should support `--json` for json output, for reliable scripting · Issue #55 · prasmussen/chrome-cli",
  "url" : "https://github.com/prasmussen/chrome-cli/issues/55",
  "windowId" : 26
}

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feature: every command should support `--json` for json output, for reliable scripting #55